You Only Want Me Cause I'm Taken

Chapter 13

~Niall~

Guitar in hand, I walked down the sunny streets to Zayn's house. We arranged to practice singing together in preparation for our next concert. When I finally got to Zayn's house, the door was open. I bet Zayn won't mind me just coming in, I thought. But when I got inside...

"My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, and they're like, it's better than yours..." Zayn was dancing around, in his underwear, singing "Milkshake". While holding two jugs of milk to his chest. And he was blissfully unaware that I was watching. "I could teach you but I have to charge." Now Zayn smacks his own bum playfully. Zayn, the "bad boy" of the group, was singing a song about boobs. And acting like he had them.

"Zayn!" I shouted. He spun on his heel to face me from across the room. His face turned scarlet.

"Niall? Why didn't you ring the doorbell?"

"I didn't think you would mind if I just came in," I said. "You've traumatized me for life. I'm gonna need intense therapy after this." Zayn ran his hand through his hair. Now that it wasn't styled, it just flopped down around his face.

"I'm gonna..." He ran away. I couldn't believe it. Zayn? Of all people, of all things!

Zayn returned a couple minutes later, fully dressed and without milk jugs.

"Much better," I said. "Now let's pretend that the last ten minutes of our lives never happened."

"Let's do that," agreed Zayn. "Now what song do you want to try first?"

"Let's try 'They Don't Know About Us'." I picked up my guitar and began to sing. "People say we shouldn’t be together. We're too young to know about forever. But I say they don’t know what they talk talk talkin’ about." I pause the strumming of my guitar. "Liam's singing that part," I announce.

"Just sing," said Zayn. I resume singing.

"Cause this love is only getting stronger. So I don't wanna wait, any longer. I just wanna tell the world that you're mine, girl. Ohhh..." Now we both sing.

"They don't know about the things we do, they don't know about the 'I love you's, but I bet you if they only knew, they would just be jealous of us. They don't know about the up-all-night's, they don't know I've waited all my life, just to find a love that feels this right. Baby they don't know about, they don't know about us."

"One touch, and I was a believer. Every kiss, it gets a little sweeter..."

"It's getting better, keeps getting better all the time girl."

"They don't know about the things we do, they don't know about the 'I love you's, but I bet you if they only knew, they would just be jealous of us. They don't know about the up-all-night's, they don't know I've waited all my life, just to find a love that feels this right. Baby they don't know about, they don't know about us." Zayn took the next part, Louis' part.

"They don't know how special you are. They don't know what you've done to my heart. They can say anything they want. 'Cause they don't know about us."

"They don't know what we do best. That's between me and you, our little secret"

"But I wanna tell em, I wanna tell the world that your mine girl..."

"They don't know about the things we do, they don't know about the 'I love you's, but I bet you if they only knew, they would just be jealous of us. They don't know about the up-all-night's, they don't know I've waited all my life, just to find a love that feels this right. Baby they don't know about, they don't know about us." I strummed the last chord. Zayn beamed at me.